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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: enhanced time_t value before 1970...?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 18:13:29 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <31601B46.4287@tulsa.lgc.com>,
- Glenn Carr <gcarr@tulsa.lgc.com> wrote:
- >We're using a routine from an X/Motif widget vendor, KL Group, that
- >converts a time string to a time_t value (i.e., the number of
- >seconds since 12/31/1969), with the added ability to return a
- >negative time_t for dates before epoch. We'd like to use this
- >algorithm, but it's proprietary :-(. Does anyone have a solid
- >algorithm for doing this?
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- Maybe the GNU C library can handle it, or can be massaged into doing it:
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- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/glibc*
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